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STEVENS UPDATE (ignore the other one)
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so i hiked stevens today (thursday) and they have quite the park, when i left they were still setting things up. Basically the park goes like this from top to bottom, you start of with a flat box, then go down to a flat-down box, then theres a street-style flat rail, followed by the pryamid box, on the right of the pryamid you can hit a up-flat rail (barley and up though, mostly just flat), then you go down, and they DO have the waterfall setup (the jumps about 5-10 ft tall, prrty popy, and its about a 20-35 ft gap, pretty fun jump), then you go down and they have the c-box, followed by the rainbow box, then they have the 2 flat boxes setup into a a-frame box (same setup and location as last year), then the park ends with the s-rail (same location as last year). hope this made sense, and have fun in the park, see ya Saterday.
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Ahahahaha, I almost might go up there just to see this tomfoolery. But no, I'll wait till we have more snow, and when it wont be raining.
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sounds way better then last year opening day.
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seems like they have for boxes than last year, just hopefully some of them break the 15ft foot barrier. i'll be up there next week anyway though.
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sounds pretty sick except for the only like 2 jumps part
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oh how i wish i could be skiing in the mountains today... switch... rails... jump(s)... oh well. soon enough i suppose
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those rails and boxes actualy look preety good. the landing on the waterfall looked flat though.
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Ya the landing on the waterfall looks so shitty, I didn't hit it but once we see more snow I'll be on it like a hobo on a ham sandwhich.
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I didnt go in the park at all today, but from the chair, the waterfall looks larger, and they've made the third kicker in the pro line (only about 15-20 feet). Also, only Hogsback and Skyline were running today (and Daisy, that chair accesses some GREAT pow!). I talked to a guy who said Tye should be open Friday, and that something happened to the Big Chief lift when they were doing a trial run earlier this week. They're looking for a new part for it or something, but that lift is so old that they'll probably have to make it themselves if that dudes story is true.
Conditions are nice, 6" + fresh with that early season ice layer under it. Some exposure, and lots of unmarked lips and ditches in all the runs, so watch out, I ate shit screaming down Daisy on one...
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tye on friday eh? looks like ill have to get first chair (calling it now). Idealy, there will be a lot of pow.
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waterfall has no pop like usual...... but the park was pretty fun today!
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Today was damn fun. I ran the park a few times and hit the waterfall once. Wasnt a ton of pop on it but it worked. Its fun hucking off some cliffs on hogs. I ate a lot of shit today trying new stuff and bad visbility.
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I talked to two guys on the lift from Woodenville... you guys on the site?
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i went up today... anyone else up there today? i was rocking
elizabeths with a tan down jacket, black pants, anons, and a helmet
with an ns sticker on it. today was so much fun
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oh my perhaps one of the best turkey days... got dibs on tye rock, double stager, pow yum yum.
tomorrow could be absolutely amazing
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I might have seen you. It was off of skyline, i was waiting at the top for my boarder friends to bind up. The kid was looking at me like, I was wearing brown pin stribe pants and jacket with oakley sunfire goggles. Riding head mad trix.
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Mmm today was pretty awesome especially for my first day up this season! Pow was great!!
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i think i seen you, it was at the waterfall, which was crappy as expected, i buttered it to 180 th backside of the jump. black denim suit (not theat you could tell as it was pretty white with all the snow stuck to it) and a white 9mx with brown and orange soldiers. rocking the best pow ski of all time, center mounted fujis, one being reverse camber. but yeah, hella fun day, hitting tye rock in november, fun cliffs, finding holes in the snow to take the ski off my foot, good times. i wish i could make it tomarrow, but i got to visit people on my last day in state this go around.
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mmmmmmm
tye was amazing, 7th was utterly amazing (except that the stuff got tracked out fast and longer lines) but yea, oh my
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What a great day, 50' off tye (fuck you Grant, you managed to put a bombhole in the exact spot I was planning to hit Tye Rock in the time I saw it riding up the chair to when I got there... grrr, next year I'll beat you to it...). Numerous cliffs and smaller stuff made the day excellent, and I only hit that ice layer once on landing (and it hurt...). I think the season is off to an incredible start...
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I shead a tear because I missed today!!! Work sucks balls thats all I have to say about that. Whistler you got a week to get ready to be raped of your pow.
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tye's like 35 max off the point, no was you go 50 out of that even if you went off it at mach speed cause of the flat landing.
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Not the rock itself, its to the skiers left in an area hemmed in by trees. You have to go by the ammo shack to get there, requires a little hiking.
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I was playing with that rock early in the morning, no way in hell i was giving up the landing. It was nice too :)
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i wish i was at stevens skiing pow than at flat tline...
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Stevens has been pretty damn sick the past few days. Tomorrow should be another epic day. I wanted to hit Tye Rock but the run up to it was hella rocky and decided id wait for better coverage.
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thats why you get first chair, and thus, first hit
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My bro and friends are slow as hell getting ready in the mornings and plus traffic was a bitch this morning getting up there.
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i don't think that there's a 50 footer in those either, mostly because the trees make it too hard to get the speed to turn those into 50s.
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Yeah, you start in trees around this one, but the 'terrace' is somehow barren of trees for about 100 feet, gives you a good landing most of the time. I found that spot late last winter, and it wasnt nearly as nice as it was Friday. Landing gets a lot flatter mid-season.
So I pulled out some skins and trekkers today from my house... anyone feeling like a hike up to the top of Tye Peak sometime?
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they didnt open the backside today did they? they said tomorrow, but it says it is open on one little part of their page, but not on another. confused as helll
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They probably edited it right after the mountain closed. Hence it will be updated for tomorrow.
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it was fun today
park is noww....
at top: two jumps down skier right side, flat box, kink box, trap box, two 20 foot flat rails, a 2o flat to 20 down kink rail
then: waterfall, cbox rainbow box, double long flat box, and S rail
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did they fix the S? cause the lip was on the wrong side when i was there, i mean they must have been tripping balls not to realize that, but it was.
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chris just means he stopmed the shit out of it... but yaa, really fun park today, and tomorrow will be amazing on the backside
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Woohoo!! Backside is opening TOMORROW. Night opps start on the 9th of December, yessssss!!
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hmmm im a noob what is this waterfall?is it like a rail that goes up then down?so is it an up down rail?
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the waterfall is the first jumpin the big line, if I am not mistaken it used to be in a bump line called water fall.
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its the name of the first jump in the pro jump line. (right side of the park)
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they now have a third jump in the top line. its the biggest of the 3, but weird. You feel like youre mobbing into it (because it has a very breif tranny) and so its hard to gauge speed. But whatever. Waterfall landing is steepend, but thus the jump feels rather small at this point.
several of the boxes have been removed, probably for the little rail thingy on saturday
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it's just the first step in making it bigger.
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bitches got rid of the rope tow.
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and the haunted racing shack
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i ended up being the only skier who jammed it last year. it was a pretty fun comp. you get mad laps with the rope tow
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